Impact of family, gender and education on Wuthering Heights 18th and 19th century education is closely linked to gender association of this period. Men from wealthy families were the only people who were offered the opportunity to receive a college-level education. Just as many men today use golf to demonstrate their status and superiority, these gentlemen have turned to cricket and rugby. Another similarity to today's society is the importance of personal connections to advance educational opportunities and business opportunities. Social position was extremely important in this period. “Manners, money, birth, employment, and leisure were crucial indicators of social position, determining not only an individual's place in society but also the freedom to act, speak, learn, and earn” (Longman p. 1886). Some interesting factors that brought about this status, which I personally would like to see more of today, are loyalty, duty, and public service. Instead of selecting the elite by birth, skill and learning became the criteria for the administration of society. Frances Cobbe described the boarding school she attended as a young girl. The cost of tuition was 25 times what Charlotte Bronte earned in 1841 (Longman p.1888). Cobbe describes the importance of women from wealthy families at this time being beautiful and busy knitting and gossiping. Intelligence and accomplishments were not activities allowed to women. Charlotte Bronte described one of the few occupations permitted to women at that time in her book Jane Eyre. As previously stated, the income received for such grueling work amounted to one twenty-fifth of Cobbe's boarding school tuition..